Rocking furniture



(No Model.)

A. G. WIOKER.

ROCKING FURNITURE.

No. 348,809. Patented Sept. 7, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT G. VVICKER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ROCKING FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,809, datedSeptember 7,1886.

Application filed July 23, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. WIOKER, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rocking Furniture,of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful coupling device between therockers and the base for those articles of rocking furniture which restupon a special base or platform.

My said coupling device consists, first, of two groups ofconsecutively-pivoted pairs of intersecting bars; second, of springsconnected therewith; third, of a catch to prevent rocking when no motionis desired. This form of coupling permits a free rocking motion of thearticle of furniture without possibility of lateral displacement, freefrom the objectionable jerky action felt in most platform-rockers.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are sections, in the planeof rocking, of a platform rocker crib in the normal and cantedpositions, respectively. Fig. 3 is an end view of my coupling in itspreferredform.

1 may represent a customary or any suitable base or platform, and 2 therocking member of a childs crib, 3.

The two coupling devices (one for each rocker) being of identicalconstruction, description of one will serve for both.

4 is a plate, secured by wood-screws 5 to the inner wall of the base orplatform.

6 7 are two precisely-similar bars, whose lower ends are secured toplate 4 by means of pivots 8 9, and whose upper ends are secured to thelower ends of two similar bars, 10 11, by means of pivots 12 13. Theupper ends of bars 10 11 are overlapped, and are both secured bya singlepivot, 14, to a plate or bracket, 15, which is secured by wood-screws 16to an inner wall of the rocking member.

The above-described device of itself eonstitutes an efficient coupling,and may be so used Serial No. 208,867. (No model.)

without further elaboration. In the preferred form of my invention,however, each bracket 4 and .15 has an inwardly projecting lug. TheselugslS 19 are connected by a contractile spring, 20, whose resilientforce operates to draw the rocking member back to the normal positionshown in Fig. 1 whenever displaced therefrom, and to maintain saidmember at such normal position, except when displaced by an externalforce.

Associated with the above devices may be acateh, 21, whose beveled end22 being slipped over a spring-bolt, 23, said bolt shoots into anorifice, 24, in said catch. A bracket, 25, fastened to the rockingmember, has two notches, 26 27, one or other of which, receiving theupper end of the catch 21, retains it either to the effective ornon-effective position. In the effective position (see Fig. 1) of thecatch the crib is prevented from rocking.

I have illustrated my invention in connection with a childs crib; but itis manifestly applicable to rocking chairs and settees and otherarticles of rocking furniture.

I claim as new, and of my invention in fun niture platfornrrockers-- 1.The combination, with the platform 1 and rocking member 2, of thebrackets 4 and the pivoted bars 6 7 10 11, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The combination of stationary and rocking members 1 2, brackets 4 15,pivoted bars 6 7 10 11, and the spring 20.

3. The combination of catch 21, spring bolt 23, and doubly-notchedbracket 25, for the purpose designated.

In testimony of which invention Ihereunt-o set my hand.

ALBERT G. IVICKER.

Witnesses:

E. M. WILLIAMs, GEO. H. KNIGHT.

